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2 EaleighChristianAdvocate RALEIGH, N. C, : : : OCT. 26, 1887. Kev. F. L. ltEIO, - - Editor. CORRESPONDING EDITORS : TJEY. VT. S. BLACK, I). I). HEY. II. T. HUDSON, D. I). Subscription Kates : One year, in advance, : : $2.00 Six months, in advance, : Three months, in advance, : 1.00 .50 To ministers and the widows of ministers at half price. Advertising rates furnished on applica tion. All the traveling and local ministers in the Conference are our authorized agents. Send money by Check, F. O. Money Or der, or by Registered Letter, or hand to your pastor. The date opposite our name on the yel low label, which we paste on your paper .en eh week, is the time when yonr subscrip tion to the Advocate expires. Address all letters to REV. F. L. REID, Raleigh, X. C. Fair Warning'. If your subscription to this paper i out note, or if it expires between not? and the 1st day of Dec. 1S87, be sure to send your renewal by your pastor to Conference, if not sent be fore. Immediately after Conference we will cut off those whose subscrip tions are out and who do not renew hetween now and then. We have waited with many on account of the scarcity of money, die sure to renew t-ctween this and Conference, or you yrdl be cut off. The dote cppositc ?ou.r name on the yellow label o)i I,-our paper is the time udteu your subscription empires. look at it now; and, if due, hand to your 2a$tor, or td to us at once. Reports of Committees. "While looking over the reports as published in our Minutes, Ave were prompted to write what follows: We may truthfully say that no part of the Conference business is fraught with more importance than the work of the various committees. To them are committed matters of the deepest interest. What is more im portant than the cause of Missions, Sunday-schools, circulating our de nominational literature, education sand temperance "r All these vital in terests are committed to the investi gation and recommendations of the ":omniittees. 'The reports handling such mo mentous subjects, which subjects are designed to enlist the hearts and en lighten the minds of over 200 minis ters and over 80,000 laymen, ought to be first-class in style and matter, .and full and explicit. They ought, too. to be of sufficient length as to embrace the salient points of the causes handled. Rut our Confer ence Reports are open to criticism in several particulars, are frequently yushed through and do but little sgood. They are often too brief. Think of the stupendous moment of our Sunday-schools numbering 51,000 scholars and G,0S1 teachers, all need ing the most stimulating and wise counsels, being disposed of in a Ke port of a dozen or more lines and that hurriedly read and voted upon without discussion. Why such a Report ought to have covered at .least two pages of the Journal, and ought to have been packed with the bet information on that subject. These 1 Reports are frequently lack ing in statistical information. In .)ur opinion, nothing preaches so impressively as well arranged sta tistical tables. How many children belonging to Methodist families in ur charges, not enrolled in any school? ' ' How many schools suspend their operations during the winter? 3 How main- Sunday-school children con verted during the year ? I low many -Methodist Churches have no schools -at all ? Answers to these questions will go far to quicken the zeal of preachers and people in this glorious work. If the Conference would give time to hear and discuss such re ports the committees would be en couraged to get them up. So the Report on Missions ought to embrace .the statistics of 3iissions. The Re port on Temperance should also be supplied with the statistics of Tem perance. The object of penning these re jjiarks is to impress our committees with a due sense of the importance RALEIGH CHRISTIAN- ADVOCATE, WEDNESDATOCT887 LJliJJLillJJJll.. of their work and the Conference too. It is a work of too much inter est to be carelessly, indifferently, or superficially done. These Reports become permanent by being printed in our Minutes. They are read by thousands of our laymen. They have a practical bearing in shaping the measures taken by Conference to promote the varied interests dis cussed. Therefore, they ought to be first-class in style and matter, and ought to receive much attention. The Seven Advisers. Advice is plentiful. We are not going to give any just now, but Ave want you to hear others give a little. If you are thinking at all of having your church paper discontinued, be fore doing so read carefully the fol loAving from Zioits Watclanan : Sxor jiy Paper. 1. Selfishness said Do it. You will save by it and be the richer. 2. Economy said Doit. Your ex penses are large. You must take in sail somewhere, and here's a good place to begin. Rut I had other advisers and told the above named to be quiet, while I heard others. 1. Intelligence said In fifty issues of the paper, during the year, you will have every variety of food for your intellect, science, art, com merce, agriculture, manufactures, learning old and new, history, geog raphy, biography, etc., will spread a very respectable portion of their stores before you, and you cannot but be wiser before the year ends. 2. And Benevolence said You are not any too large hearted now, and if anything can melt the ice of selfish ness, and expand the heart with true and fervent good-will to men, it will be such a picture of the world's sins, wants and miseries as, duringtwelve months, it will lay before you. .". And spiritual Wisdom said There is scarcely any better Com mentary on the Jiible than a good re ligious periodical. Ten thousand bees will bring forth the honey. Prophecies are rapidly being fulfill ed, divine promises are being per formed, Rible doctrines confirmed, providences, illustrating the Sacred Record, constantly occurring, mis sionary operation in all lands suc cessful, etc.; all these bright clouds will sail over your horizon, so that, in fiftv weeks, you will get fifty times that number of the lessons of that wisdom that cometh from above. 4. Personal Piety said A higher type of the Christian life should be the history of the year; and you can not get anywhere, save from the Ri ble, more varied and pressing and affecting appeals for the higher life of the soul tlian are contained in the weekly sheets of a good religious pe riodical. n Citsr.lo.no.f. here appeared, and gave Selfishness a frown that caused a hasty exit of that personage, and bade Economy be wiser in council next time, sustaining all the above appeals in behalf of the cause they plead, and making me feel that I must do something for Jesus and for my own spiritual wants, so I will go out among my neighbors and per suade at least five of them to send with me for Zion's Watchman for 1SS4. I have the conviction upon me that the editor needs just such endorsements from me. With a list of 10,000 names he can devote all his precious time to the editing of the paper. Therefore to withhold my support would be to hinder the gos pel of Christ which is so dear to my heart. What? Stop my paper! Xo! Xever! As a good brother said the other day, I will sooner live on two meals a da v. EDITORIAL NOTES: We acknowledge with profound grat itude the many kind ami complimentary notices of the Advocate in its new out fit. of the world throw up their hats and whoop at a horse race, but criticise the child of God who shouts over being adopted into (.Jed's great family. Ret them criticise. Tup: "mixed school" question is vex ing the people in Ohio and Kansas. Our Northern exchanges, that were so loud in condemnation of Georgia's law, are wonderfully quiet about Ohio and Kansas. People who try so hard to manage other folks' affairs ought first to learn how to manage their own. It tukxs out that Pro. Candler's re ply to Miss Abbott, and not Miss Ab bott, was the thing that was applauded. And Pro. Candler's official board lias strongly endorsed his course. Hoav these press dispatches do wilfully state falsehoods. Many of the secular papers owe it to the public to correct the false statements thev have helped to circu late. After the Fair last year our city pa pers spoke of the fact that there was no drunkenness in the city. Then we had prohibition. This year the papers are telling of the number who were drunk on the streets. They are selling beer and wine in Raleigh now. This accounts for the difference this year and last. Ax exchange tells of a brother, said to be worth fifty thousand dollars, who took his entire family to the State Fair. It cost him a hundred dollars or more. The Sunday after his return home his pastor took a missionary collect ion, and this interested spectator of his coun try's resources and progress, gave one dollar to spread the kingdom of Christ find a few The Wesleyan Advocate says that in the Alabama Christian Advocate Revs. Whitten and Ilearn have for many weeks discussed the right of women to nreach the Gosnel. Each argued his side well, and each stuck to his first opinion. Last week Revs. C. P. Oliver and X. P. D. Sanford, who seem to have quietly acted as judges, rendered their opinion, which in substance is this : Either women ought to preach, or thev ought not. PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. R. R. Hall has changed his place of residence from Chapel Hill to Rynums, X. C. Rev. Dr. R. L. Aberxetiiy lec tured recently in Smithfield, X. C, on "The Human Soul and Mind." Rev. R. L. Warlick's horse: is dead, Ave regret to learn. Fortunate ly he can attend all his appointments until Conference by railroad. Rev. Dr. Rurkiiead, Rev. Dr. Robey, and llev. X. M. Jurney, all of our Conference, Avere among tho visitors to the State Fair last week. Rev. Dr. E. A. Yates, of Wil- mmgton, X. C, lias been troubled some AVim rneumausm out is lmpro Aring, and his physician says his ail ment is of a temporary nature. We hope he Avill soon be entirely AArell. ii i j . i i . r Miss Ida 31. Shell, daughter of the late Rev. L. Shell, died sudden ly at Trinity College, X. C, on last Tuesday of congestiA'e chill. The remains Avere brought to this place for interment. The funeral services AA'ere conducted by Rev. W. C. Xor man. Dr. A. A. Scroggs, a prominent Methodist and an excellent physician of Lenoir, X. C, died on the 10th in stant. He Avas Avell knoAvn and greatly beloA'ed in our church and among the people generally. I le has been in feeble health for some time. He Avas 67 years old. AYe hope his pastor Avill furnish the Advocate Avitli a suitable sketch of this man. The Advocate office has been honored and the editor delighted Avith a number of Arisits the past Aveek. Among the ministry Ave haA'e had calls from lieA s. Y. A. Sharpe, J. A. Lee, G. F. Smith, R. T. X. Stephenson, R. R. Culbreth, D. R. Rruton, R. C. Allied, C. O. Durant, Y. Pope, J. AY. Jones and J. AV. Clegg. Among the laymen Avere Dr. S. S. SatcliAvell, Wni. Paylor, J. T. Johnson, J. A. Leach, AY. T. AYatts, Prof. (). AY. Carr. J. S. Barrow and 1. T. Kearns. In addition to the aboA O Ave had the pleasure of meet ing, in the city, JJev. B. R. Hall and Rev. S. B. Turrentine. Of Rev. B. R. Hall's preaching in Durham recently the riani sarfs . "The Plant feels constrained to say something of the sermons of 1 JeA. Mr. Hall at Main street Church last AAeek. They Avere graphic sermons. The preacher evidently had a mes sage for the people of Durham, and he" delivered it fearlessly and poAver- iiulv. 1 he sermon on ednesdav night, from the texl: " Tehel, thou art Aveighed in the balance, and art found Avanting ," Avas particularhr strong and convincing. He preached the truth, lie told his congregation the truth, and plead witn them to turn to Jesus, who alone bv I lis a- tonement can make us AvortliA' to stand up and be Aveighed at the great day. "Christ Avill step into the scales Avith us, if Ave trust him and folloAv him, and He Avith us, avcavHI be Aveighed and not -found Avanting." The Plant thinks that the sermon did great good; the effects of it were seen at once; many Avere cut to the heart. A more straight-forward, earnest preacher Ave do not knoAV." X. C. Conference Woman's Mis sionary Society. Officers elect: President, Mrs. J. A. Cunninggim, Greensboro; A'ice president, Mrs. Lucy Robertson, Greensboro ; corresponding secre tary, Mrs. F. M. Bumpass, Greens boro ; recording secretary, Miss Blanche Fentress, Raleigh ;' treasur er, Miss M. E. Carter, Durham ; au ditor, Air. McCabe, Durham. District Secretaries: Raleigh, Airs. Julia BarroAV ; Durham, Mrs. T. G. Cozart ; Greensboro, Mrs. L. G. Hen dren; Trinity College, Airs. Dr. Stan ton; Salisbury, Airs. Joseph Wheel er; Statesville, Mrs. AY. M. Bobbins; Shelby, Airs. II. T. Hudson; Char lotte, Mrs. F. D. SAAdndell ; Fayette Aulle, Aliss AI. E. Rishton; AVilming ton, Airs. AY. AI. Ilankins; XeAbern, Airs. AY. 31. Robey ; AYarrenton, Airs. A. R. Raven; AYashington, 31rs. Frank Bishop. General Superintendent and Treas urer Juvenile Work, 3Irs. AY. S. Black. Delegate to Woman's Board of Alissions, at Little Rock, June, 1888, 3Irs. F. 31. Bumpass. 3Irs. W. S. Black, reserve. Total amount collected by AY. 31. Society for fiscal year ending October 18th, 81023.00 808.74 82731.74 Total by the Bright Jewels, Grand total for 1880, AY. 31. Society increase in one year, 8303.00 Bright JeAvel increase in one year, 8151.40 Xext annual meeting at XeAvbern includes the first Sunday in July. I will give you a fuller report hereaf ter, when you have more space. 3Iiss Blanche Fentress, Recording Secretary. State papers please copy. in the earth. We might such in North Carolina. Congratulatory and Complimentary Rev. R. A. AYillis writes ; 'Your new dress is very nice indeed. t?ot- "n Turrentine writes : "I am deiigiited Avith the new outfit. Rev. S. D. Adams writes : "Advo cate this AA-eek is Avell filled and su perb in appearance." 3Ir. AY. S. AYisehart, a layman, writes: "The Advocate is just as nice as it can be in its new dress. ReAr. E. L. Stamey writes : "The Advocate looks much better, and 1 am willing to do all I can for you and the paper. 7 7 Rca J. T. Gibbs writes : "I much pleased with the Advocate s new dress, and think the paper con stantly improving." Rev. A". A. Sharpe writes : 'T like your neAV dress, and am glad you can afford to put it on. Hope you may have increased patronage." Hev. S. R. Trawick writes : "I be speak for your paper an enlarged cir culation. The neAV dress is quite becoming. It looks starchy, and the type is very fine." The Evening Visitor, of Raleigh, says : "The Raleigh Christian Ad vocate appears this Aveek Avith bran neAV tvne. It is one oi tne nest sec tarian papers in the South The JVews and Observer, of Ral- ai O' rh. savs: "The Raleigh Chris tian Advocate appears in a complete neAV outfit including as handsome a head as one eArer sees. It is worthy the great communion of which it is the representative." The Wesleyan Advocate says : "The Raleigh Christian Advocate comes to us this AAreek in a fine neAV suit from head to heels. AYe con gratulate our confrere, Bro. Reid, on liis neAV outfit and on his steady im nrovement of the paper in every re spect it The Durham Plant says: "The Raleigh Ada'ocate appeared last AA'eek in a neAV dress. Its head and face are particularly handsome, and the words of its mouth full of Avis- dom. Long life and great success to its energetic, hard-Avorking editor. ii Rev. P. J. Carra way writes Advocate Aas received this "The morn- ing. I haAe only time before leaving home to say that I am much pleased Avith the neAAr dress and contents of "our church paper." Accept my thanks for your diligent, earnest, and successful efforts to giAe us a paper Avorthy of Xorth Carolina Methodism. 3Iy prayers are for your future success." The Monroe Enquirer and Ec vrcss says: "The Raleigh Advocate comes out in a new dress this Aveek, and is A ery greatly improved in ap Ijeai uiiue. Tbe Advocate is a better paper iioav than it has ever been since Ave kneAA' it. EAery 3Iethodist family in the State should receiAre its AAreekly A'isits. It is the official or gan of the Conference, and is indis pensable to eA'ery one avIio desires to keep informed about the AA'ork of the Church in the State. There are contributions in this issue from Bish op Duncan, Bishop Key, Judge AValter Clark, besides letters from every section of the Conference, from pastors and laymen. AYe cannot see now any Alethodist who Ioacs his Church can afford to do without it when it can be had for the low price of 82.00 a year. Address ReA F. L. Reid, Raleigh, X. C." The Spirit of the Age says : "The Raleigh Christian Advocate ap peared last weed in an entirely new dress, and, Ave must say, a A'eiy be coming one. The Advocate is sec ond to none of its sister Advocates in the South, and it is fully abreast with the age, in all its appointments, as a church paper. It deserves, and we hope is receiving;, the patronage of the Conference of which it is, and has so long been the organ. "The X. C. Conference did a Avise thing, when, at Statesville in 1808, it made the publishing of an organ an individual enterprise the indi vidual to shoulder and carry the re sponsibility, Avhile the Conference was to have the use and benefit of the paper. The plan has A'orked well, and to-day the Xorth Carolina Conference has an organ the equal of that of any other Conference, and Rev. F. L. Reid, its present editor, is giving all his energies, as Avell as his money, toward making it better. The 3Iethodists of Xorth Carolina haA-e cause to be proud of their pa per and they should see to it that it gues into e ery nooK ana corner the Conference." oi The Christian Sun says: "The Raleigh Christian Advocate came to us last AAeek in a neAV dress from bottom to top new heading too, and what is more unusual, a very hand some heading, yet modest and neat, a thing not often seen in newspaper headings. The Advocate is the or gan of the X. C. 31. E. Conference, and AA-ell desenes the name. It is now perhaps the handsomest relig ious newspaper in the State a thing of which our 3Iethodist brethren should be proud. 1 hit let them bear m mind that it takes a man and a working man, with good judgment, to run a successful paper not neces sarily a successful paper financially, but that higher success which in cludes the welfare and best interests of the church. The Ada'ocate is we believe, such a paper of the3Ieth odists of Xorth Carolina, and if Ave could get their ear, aac would tell them that their excellent paper is due to the hard work and good judg ment spent upon it by one oi tiie clearest and truest sons of the church in Xorth Carolina Rev. F L. Reid is that man." THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL. IXTEKXATIOXAL. L.ESSONS. Lesson for October 30, 18S7. TIIE HARVEST AXD TIIE LA- BORERS Matt. 0, 35-38, ana 10, Golden Text. ceived, freely give ."Freely ye have re- IXTRODUCTIOX. The conflict between Christ and the TOiarisPPs hnd already commenced. They had attacked him for breaking the Sabbath (Matt. 12, 2, 10, 14; John 5, 10), nn.l for sissociatinc: with publicans and sinners (Alatt. 0, 11), and accused him of casting out devils by the prince or ue ils. Matt. 12, 24. He had made several missionary tours through Galilee, preaching the gospel and healing the sick. Prior to this commission are un doubtedly to be placed, not only the miracles previously recorded by Mat thew, but also those of the raising of the son of the Avidow of Xain (Luke 7, 11-17), and the healing of the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda. John 5. He had also been .mobbed at Xazareth (Luke 4, 20, 30), and had already not on ly vigorously exposed the errors of the Pharisees in the Sermon on the Mount, but had denounced them and their hy pocrisy before all the people (Alatt. 12, 30-30; Luke 11, 31-54), and had preached the parables concerning the kingdom of God recorded in 3Iatt. 13. Meanwhile his popularity among the people had on ly been increased by tne opposition of the Pharisees. L. Abbott. Thoughts on the Lesson. DY PRESIDENT J. II. CARLISLE, L.L. D. "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synago gues." This refers, perhaps, to what is known as the third tour which Jesus took through Galilee. AVe have now reached the first months of the year 20, A. I). Gallilee was thickly crowded with cities and villages very many of Avhich Avere visited by our Lord. In every city or A illage Avhere a synagogue Avas open He taught the people. AVe may suppose lie taught many truths Avhich are not recorded. "Preaching the Gospel of the kingdom." There is a JvLiiguujii uieie, ami its ciiiiiicicii.-iiv, message or doctrine is not a Avail or cry of despair, but a Gospel, a proclamation of good news. Matthew says "the kingdom," Avhich is enough. AV hat kingdom V Whose kingdom y There is but one kingdom Avorthy of the name, in Alatthew's view, and that kingdom has only one king. "Healing every sickness and eA'ery disease," more strict ly eA'ery Aveekness ; not only driving away disease but weakness also. "In the moral life, Aveakness is sometimes the Avorst form of disease." "TJutAVheii He saw the multitudes He Avas nrnved Avith compassion." There was much in these multitudes to moA'e His Avrath or His indignation. Rut the preA'ailing feeling Avhich they roused in Him Avas that of compassion. Many of them were, no doubt, Avell fed and well clothed, and lived in comforta ble homes. Rut they niOA ed Him to compassion. They Avere happy in their Avay, or thought themselves so, yet they moA'ed Him to compassion. Populous Galilee might have stirred many thoughts in the breast of a statesman or a philosopher of that day. To the pitying eye of Jesus its crowded cities and villages Avere only as a vast, barren field, filled Avith untended, unprotected sheep, scattered, exposed, harassed, a prey to enemies and to Avant. Arid yet, in another point of view, Galilee was a A'ast, ripe harvest field. The singular thing is that the haiwest was ready and waiting. Plenteous har A'est fields were waiting and calling for laborers. Yet Galilee had many reli gious officials, and many synagogues, where the accustomed services Avere read and the prescribed sacrifices were punctually offered. Many priests but few laborers ! Jesus put into the mouths of His dis ciples the prayer suggested bythis touch ing object lesson. This prayer was not directly that the poor Galileans should he softened or quickened. They seemed to be ready if the right laborers can be found. "The Lord of the harvest." This expression gives to the harvest a peculiar dignity and character. It is His harvest. The prayer was soon an swered when the petitioners themselves were sent forth. "His twelve disciples" had been al ready called. Their mission iioav re ceived added dignity and authority. This is the first distinct account Ave have of miraculous power being confer red on the disciples. This power not only extended to the body and its count less ills. The mind, or spirit, and its more fearful maladies Avere included in the benilicen gift of power. Fevers and pains Avere to be dislodged from the body, while unclean spirits were to he expelled from the "spirit." Xor was this great power to be confined to spe cial cases ; all manner of sickness and all manner of disease were to he re beA'ed. Here Ave have the list of the twelve, which is given in substance in three other places-Mark iii, 1G ; Luke vi, 14 ; V If the teac1" will take the trouble to write down these four lists side by side, he will be able to follow with more interest several suggestions Mi ch are made by those who have poked carefully over them. In every Thebe?rSwdS first ana is Jast. The h,t m Acts was drawn up after tho terrible death of Judas ..a thias in his place as the lilst 11 ; i i i i ii 1 1 iiii ii i iirpa r.. : w.v njm)s off. Peter, Phillip and James, iir pheus, heading these lists 'J son (,f der. Each list of four iUvVri the same four disciple, tL reiauv e oruer within the 'vrm cnangen lianged. Andrew, for e;nin,' 'r' ud in two lists and bunt, i is name is always found in '' ond hi rrvAiii fT aiii Ar.,lit W" i them in couples Simon nnl ui1'' James and John, etc. Thev ( f out two by two. There vas 1 "! dernessand wisdom in this" r'lr" Divinely inspired apostle cmii.i a ciate, perhaps Ave mav en a!';'x needed, human sympathy an.u,,' first group gives us ivtW l ,,,'1'1 John, the three highly laV,, ; Lord. Two of the, ivt(.r ., j give us most valuable parts nm,"? Testament. Matthew is th,- y ', the second group, whil,. .I;1JU'"' John are from the third. Then. I " tainly two pairs of brothers J','" and Peter, James and j(,u' .j 1' haps even a third, James tliJi,'1;: Judas or . Thaddeus. X,, OU(, twelve seems to have been a yrj scribe, all being what we wom,? call laymen. . All avpiv ;ali!eaiw "1 haps with the exception of Jud;,, several "of the twelve we know tie except the fact of their call, o'" feAv'of them have left any wiitin.,' eral of them scarcely a lfc.nitMhv,! A small volume, like that hv (llv, wood, gives us all that is known ;,!,'. the entire list of the twelve li,,,,,' men. And yet "their line is through all the earth, and their wj, to the end of the world." Some of the instructions riv,.n twelve were repeated in substance Jesus sent of the seventy, Lukfx. i.r This mission of the twelve was, in,,,, , sense, experimental or transiti,,; The directions about not taking ; money or scrip, or shoes; n(,t (;,,,,,., the Gentiles; abiding in the same h,, were not intended to be permanent ;, to the letter of them. "As ye go, preach." This is keynote of their mission iwA of commission. Their rrarhing va be inspiring, cheering - a pro! nisi- ;.!;-; prophecy of the coming kinl nn. T:-x kingdom meant then, health toiin cleanliness to lepers, restored life K:, dead, deliverance to those jiosm- Avith devils; free bounties to all. (li the blessings they themselves h;!il , freely received. The idea is minim ally give Avhat you have liberally i. ceived. It is rather gratuitously Avhat you have gratuitously receiw.!. Perhaps this passage from Dr. blaik may be of interest to some readers: "The idea of the college of tbe tvt;. was in the main original. It liad a tain resemblance to the metlieiNei i'. Greek and Poman philosnji'nt-VN a: probably it Avas not without finr.!-. of some sort in olden time in thesili" of the Hebrew Pabbins. What v,ir pecially characteristic of then latinn Jesus to His disciples was that t!i were to itinerate with Him, to li-x eat, to Avalk and Avork aln with h sharing many of II is trials and soiii.-.' His joys becoming as far as '. menimeu with mm. it was in' Avay of multiplying Himself thai t:. circumstances of His earthly liiv.' mitted of. Xo one of us is in a j'"- ' to follow His example literally. In spirit, some approach may be mail'' it. A young minister, for o.ami lil:iv fvv fn niiilt inlv lii inself liV liM'ii-- of the young men of his l! k. y have a rare gift of Jinding out th-ii. susceptible ot these, getting im m them in classes, and meetings "!'; haps, sometimes in walks and at in' " evi il :ii ii in t i t i 1 torn 1 1 km r libit is. lib'"-' into them their enthusiasm, ; their sympathies and drawing on; t 1 talents. At first it might th" -; that the elders of a congregation be the most likely persons to benw the minister what the twelve v.:, : Jesus. Put in the case of a yeai:.: ister, the elders are generally"1''' ,.:.i.n i l ..! 1 !u-V the elasticity of character and ness of manner that can 1)" ea-;l.v 1 ed to new modes of service. " uable for mature and steady ( 1 character, they are not seldom ' in practical service. Dr. Chalmers in bl,c- gathering young men aio"1"1 pouring his own views and -a1111' ; them, rousing them to aid m ; torial schemes, and thus traim - youths, who in after years itJ; elite of the Christian laity of th'-' ' -v 1-. . . Ill I'll ' " tuiiius us neai us mi ... common level, to theexampk" 1 --' and His twelve." Abbott, while admitting s.'im'-: rarv fpntnrps in this conim'; "' twelve, thinks it contains m' important and permanent l'1'11''; "The ministry are to seek, as w " ' save the lost, and, therefore, iH'' ; . after them; they are to gb' lr,v;;.',; not to make a merchandise el ,b-' pel; they are to avoid all ,,st,'"lili"!'.'.r!. attire and luxury in b,,ll: l ' depend on the voluntary "iiii'1 of the people for their sU",t"!: . ,. , did tbe O. T. priesthood i" ;l . tent, and the O. T. prophet and not on the acquisition by the Church, so as to v,,,,-i,i;,.." ..: istry independent of thel" '", ' , : Poman Catholic hiei-amO ., ,: the support of the State, a- " ; istry of all established dependence is that ol , cams his bread, not tba avIio receives it as a gratnu. Sparianhury, S. C
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